When the dog days of summer are nearing a close, Montrealer Sixtoo will be dropping his latest masterpiece, Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man, onto society. For this new record, Sixtoo has delved further into the solo electronics realm. Surrounded by a stack of machines in his studio space, he set out to make a record compiled from live sets performed in various places at various times to stitch them together as a tape-edit record.Along the way these tracks evolved into entirely new compositions, melted down to their basic elements and refined into what we now know as Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man. The results are mindblowing. Sixtoo's signature drum machine fury is combined with dark melodic electronics to create film-noir style paranoia pieced together into one suite with many different movements. It sounds as you would expect: aggressive, deep, complex, spatial, and more importantly, tough as nails. Jackals and Vipers in Envy of Man is a reflective look forward for SixtooÉa beatscape that may require a warm-up and a massage before listening. Truly a headnodding affair of the highest order.